
Ali Evren TufanBolu Abant İzzet Baysal University · Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Ali Evren Tufan
M.D.
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Consulting Editor: Evren Tufan (M.D.)
Earned MD from Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty in 2001 and completed residency in CAP at Kocaeli University in 2007. Between 2011 and 2017 worked at the Abant Izzet Baysal University Medical Faculty. Elected Donald J Cohen Fellow in 2010 (by IACAPAP) and Young Psychiatrist Researcher Fellow in 2011 (by WPA).
Additional affiliations
September 2017 - July 2020
March 2008 - January 2009
Gulhane Academy of Military Medicine
Position
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Education
July 2002 - July 2007
Kocaeli University, Medical Faculty
Field of study
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
September 1995 - July 2001
Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, English Program
Field of study
- Medical sciences
Publications
Publications (284)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common psychiatric disorders of the childhood is an early onset, affecting 2-18 % of the children worldwide. Etiopathogenesis of ADHD is obscure. In recent studies, low levels of vitamin D are found in association with many disorders as well as in neuropsychiatric diseases. In this...
Objective: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) are frequently comorbid among adults. Also, people diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood frequently apply to psychiatry departments with complaints of anxiety and depression, especially irritability. In this study, it was aimed to determine the prevalence of A...
The aim of the present study was to assess the safety and effectiveness of high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in pregnant patients with depression. Thirty depressed pregnant patients received rTMS over the left prefrontal cortex for 6 days in a week, from Monday to Saturday for 3 weeks. The rTMS intensity was set at...
Assaults by psychiatric patients are serious occupational exposures for mental health professionals. These assaults may result in injuries, transient or persistent disabilities, severe psychological stress including posttraumatic stress disorder, and death, and cause clinical and economic burden. This issue attracts scant attention when considering...
ÖZET:
PSİKİYATRİ KLİNİKLERİNDE YALITIM VE BAĞLAMA UYGULAMALARI
Psikiyatri kliniklerinde yatarak tedavi gören hastaların kendilerine, diğer hastalara veya hastane çalışanlarına yönelik zarar verici davranışlarına engel olmak amacıyla yalıtım ve bağlama (tecrit ve tespit) gibi kısıtlayıcı yöntemler uygulanmaktadır. Yalıtımın beklenen sonucu, tehlik...
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is often comorbid with anxiety disorders and previous studies observed that anxiety could have an impact on the clinical course of ADHD and comorbid disruptive behavioral disorders (conduct disorders and oppositional-defiant disorders). Anxiety sensitivity (AS) is a different concept from anxiety per...
Introduction
Delusional parasitosis is a rare, monosymptomatic psychosis involving a delusion of being infested with parasites. It is commonly observed among female patients over the age of 50. It is classified as a ‘delusional disorder’ according to the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases and as a ‘delusional disorder - s...
Atypical antipsychotics are increasingly being used in the current clinical approach for the treatment of various psychopathologies in children and adolescents. The common use of atypical antipsychotics in this age group may lead to various consequences, including movement disorders, such as tardive dyskinesia (TD). In this study, we aimed to prese...
In this article literature related to the promises of agomelatine, an antidepressant with melatonergic MT-1 and MT- 2 receptor agonism and seratoninergic 5-HT2c receptor antagonism in the context of depression treatment is reviewed. Although the results of studies on the efficacy of agomelatine are contrary, it can be stressed that the efficacy of...
Background: Turkey is both a source and target for asylum seekers seeking refugee status in countries of European Union. There is a scarcity of research on the mental health issues of asylum seekers and refugees residing in Turkey. Aims: This study aimed: 1) to provide clinical and demographic information on asylum seekers and refugees receiving me...
Objective:
To compare the frequency and correlates of sexual dysfunction in patients with Major Depressive Disorder on SSRI treatment with those who are not.
Methods:
Patients diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder, without comorbid psychopathology/medical disorder/alcohol/nicotine use for the past year with a CGI-S severity score of 4 were in...
Vitamin B12 is one of the essential vitamins affecting various systems of the body. Reports of psychiatric disorders due to its deficiency mostly focus on middle aged and elderly patients. Here we report a case of vitamin B 12 deficiency in a 16-year old, male adolescent who presented with mixed mood disorder symptoms with psychotic features. Chief...
Objective
Risperidone is an atypical antipsychotic agent, despite its many advantages and widespread use, there is increasing attention to the adverse effects associated with long-term exposure to this drug.We aimed to investigate the changes in the liver function tests (LFTs) associated with one year risperidone treatment in children and adolescen...
Introduction
The motivation of the patient may affect response to treatment and prognosis.
Objectives
The objective of this study was to compare the various types of application of patients in terms of their motivation and sociodemographic variables.
Aims
To demonstrate that patients who apply for treatment themselves have greater motivation and...
Extant literature indicates that bipolar disorder (BD) is associated with significant poor psychosocial functioning. However, the relationship between functioning and demographic and clinical variables is unclear. The aim of this study is to investigate the predictors of functioning such as demographic and clinical variables, social support, self-p...
Asperger's syndrome (AS) is one of the disorders classified under pervasive developmental disorders. Individuals with AS have problems in social interaction, unusual special interests, and a tendency to ritualized behavior. AS is a chronic disorder that affects the social, occupational, sexual and psychological functionality of individiuals with AS...
To determine the changes in liver function tests after long-term risperidone treatment in a child and adolescent population.
Weight, alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, gamma glutamyl transpeptidase, alkaline phosphatase and serum bilirubin of the patients were assessed in pre-treatment period, and at the sixth and 12th months of...
Diagnoses of patients referring to a child and adolescent psychiatry outpatient clinic
Objective: The aim of the present study is to identify the diagnoses of patients who referred to a child and adolescent psychiatry outpatient clinic.
Method: Medical records of 538 patients referred to the Children and Adolescent Psychiatry outpatient clinic at...
Delusional misidentification syndromes include a group of delusional disorders involving a belief that the person(s)/ object(s)/ or place(s) around the patient have changed or have been changed. Those disorders can develop on the basis of mental or neurological disorders. In this paper, a case with Capgras syndrome, intermetamorphosis and reduplica...
Objective: The aim of the present study is to identify the diagnoses of patients who referred to a child and adolescent psychiatry outpatient clinic. Method: Medical records of 538 patients referred to the Children and Adolescent Psychiatry outpatient clinic at Gulhane Military Medical School, between January 2009 and June 2009 were studied retrosp...
Objective: Referral of sexually abused children and adolescents to the Forensic Medicine Council showed that sexual abuse of children and adolescents is prevalent in Turkey. Unfortunately, very few studies have examined the characteristics of sexual offenders against children and adolescents in Turkey. This study examined the sociocultural features...
Psychosis seen in patients with epilepsy can be classified as "ictal", "post-ictal" or "inter-ictal" according to the time of onset of psychotic symptoms in relation with seizures. This case presentation was thought to be important because of problems in making the diagnosis of inter-ictal psychosis and that the literature in our country on the rel...
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common neuropsychiatric disorders of childhood. Due to studies reporting that the effects of ADHD diagnosis on functioning may last throughout life, this disorder, which has great importance for child and adolescent psychiatry, started to attract greater attention recently in terms...
Risperidone is a promising agent for the treatment of schizophrenia, Tourette's disorder, mood disorders, and disruptive behavior disorders in young populations. However, adverse effects of risperidone may take a long time to emerge. The objective of this study was to investigate the changes in the liver function tests (LFTs) associated with more t...
Delirium in children can be due to various etiologies and its clinical signs can differ from those of adults. Because of the increased prevalence of missed cases of delirium in children and adolescents and the limitation of literature from our country, this case presentation may be deemed important. A male patient of 11 years was found to have redu...
Objective: A review focusing on data from studies conducted in Turkey on adult attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which received increasing attention lately, both in the world and in our country still does not exist. Therefore, this study aimed to summarize sthe reuslts of studies conducted in Turkey on this issue. Methods: PubMed an...
Venlafaxine is a non-tricyclic antidepressant which inhibits the re-uptake of serotonin, noradrenalin and dopamine. Venlafaxine is reportedly effective in the treatment of depression, anxiety, and attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder in childhood and adolescence. Symptoms of withdrawal have been reported in many of the psychotropic medicati...
The biology; especially the neurobiological features of the “love” phenomenon has recently started to attract attention. Love relations and attachment, which is closely related with them, are known to be important in health and disease. Love and love relations are found to be complex neurobiological phenomena based on activation of the limbic syste...
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is one of the most common developmental disorders of childhood with a reported world-wide prevalence of 8 to 12 %. In studies conducted in our country the prevalence rates in community were reported to vary between 8.6 to 8.1 % while clinical prevalence rates were reported to vary between 8.6 to 29.44 %. Fif...
Childhood disintegrative disorder is a neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by normal development of verbal and nonverbal communication skills, social interaction, play, bladder and bowel control and motor behavior at least in the first two years, followed by regression between 2-10 years of age in two or more of the abovementioned developmental...
Pharmacotherapy, which is an unavoidable treatment choice for Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder,
necessitates the calculation of treatment costs, as prolonged periods of treatment and follow-ups are
required. In accordance with this observation, direct and indirect costs of ADHD recently started to receive
increasing attention. A guideline...
Limbic encephalitis (LE) is a paraneoplastic neurological disorder in which, typically, the neurological symptoms occur before the cancer is diagnosed. We report on a 52-year-old male with LE who has depressive and anxiety symptoms. Cranial MRI revealed increased hippocampal signal intensities in both temporal lobes. Extensive range of symptoms con...
Objective: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most frequent psychiatric disorders of
childhood, characterized by an increased risk for the development of parent-child relationship problems. The aim
of this study is to compare the depression and anxiety levels and coping skills used by the mothers of children
with ADHD wit...
Summary
Landau-Kleffner Syndrome (LKS), classified as “acquired
aphasia with epilepsy” is clinically similar to neurodegenerative
and neurodevelopmental disorders of childhood
and presents a diagnostic challenge to child psychiatrists,
neurologists and psychologists alike. Therefore, the aim of
this paper was to provide a critical review of this co...
Conversion disorder, characterized by one or more neurological
symptoms that cannot be explained by a known neurological or
medical disorder, has long been reported in the neurologic and
psychiatric literature. Patients who present with physical complaints
but are found to have no relevant organic disease are commonplace in
medical clinics. Frequen...
Psychotic symptoms are not only related to psychiatric disorders. They may be seen in demyelinating disorders such as multiple sclerosis,
metachromatic leukodystrophy and adrenoleukodystrophy, focal degenerative diseases such as Parkinson disease. Wilson disease and Hungtington
disease, epilepsy, stroke, brain trauma and tumors. Sometimes, psychoti...
Obsessive- compulsive disorder (OCD) is commonly associated with
other psychopathology especially mood or other anxiety disorders.
An episodic course, late onset, abrupt clinical course and a family
history positive for affective disorders may be markers of bipolar
disorder comorbidity in OCD. Such patients may be more likely to
develop mania while...
The incidence of schizophrenia like psychosis is found to be increased in temporal lobe epilepsy. The duration of epilepsy and the presence of structural pathology in temporal lobe were reported to increase this risk. Temporal lobectomy is applied as a safe and effective treatment method in treatment refractory TLE patients with epileptic psychosis...
Objective: This study evaluated the clinical and sociodemographic features associated with concurrent Axis I psychiatric disorders among adult psychiatric outpatients with panic disorder (PD) with or without agoraphobia (AG). Method: This was a retrospective chart review study of 12.980 patients treated for any psychiatric disorders in psychiatric...
Dementia in young adults is rarely reported. Etiologies include dismyelinating disorders like metachromatic leukodystrophy
and adrenoleukodystrophy, enzyme and vitamin deficiencies like arylsulfatase A or vitamin E, slow
virus diseases like Creutzfeld-Jacob disease, genetic diseases like hereditary spinocerebellar ataxies, intoxications
and tumors....
Objective: Mental retardation in DSM-IV is defined by two features: subnormal cognitive functions characterized by an intelligence quotient (IQ) less than 70 and dysfunction hampering social and personal independence. Psychiatric problems in mild mental retardation are similar but more frequent to general population but, they change both in freque...
Huntington's chorea is a progressive autosomal dominant disorder characterized with dementia and choreiform movements. Significant features include bizarre grimacing, irregular breathing, disorders of articulation, and arrhythmic and irregular extremity movements. In the early phases, irritability, sadness, antisocial behavior, apathy, emotional di...
Objective: The elderly population is increasing in developing countries like Turkey, due to increasing lifespan. It was reported in 1990 population survey that 4032656 Turkish citizens were over 60 years old. To protect the quality of life of elderly people as an integral part of society and to ensure an active life needs sensitivity from physician...
Nocturnal enuresis (bedwetting) is a common inherited medical condition affecting both children and adults. Limited number of studies has attempted to determine the prevalence of nocturnal enuresis in adults. Despite the magnitude of adults with nocturnal enuresis, few studies have assessed the effects of therapy in this population. We report a cas...
Objective. Reboxetine is a selective noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor (NaRI), a study on the effects of reboxetine on amenorrhea has not been reported in the literature up to now. This report describes a patient with symptoms of amenorrhea which is thought to be caused by reboxetine. Case. A female patient with major depressive disorder was given r...
Objective: Peduncular hallucinosis is the experience of vivid, complex, predominantly visual, rarely auditory and tactile hallucinations in lesions situated in upper brain stem and commonly involving the thalamus bilaterally.
Method: In this study, a case of peduncular hallucinosis due to ischemic lesions of the pons arising in a patient with poorl...
Capgras syndrome is placed among the group of delusional
misidentification syndromes and is characterized
by delusions which are rare and resistant to treatment.
The patient believes one of his close relatives, and even
himself to be changed with a doppelganger. It is commonly
accompanied by schizophrenia or organic psychosis
and is very rare in it...
Limbic system is a subject that both psychiatry and neurology deal with. Studies have shown that patients pre-sent with changes in mood, personality, social functioning and behavior in focal temperolimbic lesions. It isthought that a lesion in temporolimbic region can bothpsychiatric and neurologic symptoms. Temporal lobe epilepsy, stroke, trauma a...
Objective: Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a tool for examining the white matter microstructure, which recently found
use for imaging of variable regions of the brain in schizophrenic patients. The objective of this study is to critically
review the findings of studies done on schizophrenia patients. Methods: PubMed electronic database was search...
ÖZET Amaç: Zeka geriliği DSM-IV'te 70'in altinda bir zeka bölümü (ZB, Intelligence Ouotient, IQ) ile karakterize edilen normal alti bilişsel işlevler ve toplumsal ve kişisel bağimsizliği engelleyecek işlev bozukluğu olmak üzere iki özellik ile tanimlanmaktadir. Hafif zeka geriliği olan hastalarda psikiyatrik problemler toplum geneline benzer ancak...
Objective: Rolandic epilepsy (RE) is one of the idiopathic partial epilepsies of childhood. By definition, it is seen with normal neurological and cognitive function. However, neuropsychological abnormalities were commonly found in studies. The purpose of this study is to critically review the results of studies done up to date on the neuropsycholo...